Speaker 1: Hey there everybody. It is Friday, December fifth, and we
Speaker 1: have our gift number five from our holiday gift guide.
Speaker 1: We are giving you gift ideas, fifteen of them actually
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday for the first three weeks of December.
Speaker 1: As we all head into our holiday seasons and we
Speaker 1: are buying up gifts left and right. Our producers sent
Speaker 1: to us some items, some popular gifts out there right now.
Speaker 2: And we have any male producers.
Speaker 1: Actually, wow, I don't think any of them participated in
Speaker 1: the gift. Yes, the answer is yes, we do have, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how much they are on the
Speaker 1: editorial side. They're more on the logistics execution side of things,
Speaker 1: which sounds so stereotypical, but that does tend to be
Speaker 1: at least it's what we're dealing with right now.
Speaker 2: So the heated eyelash curler, I can assume that was
Speaker 2: put together other baya a little council.
Speaker 1: Of women the makeup brushes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, council of women as well?
Speaker 1: Yes, perhaps, fine, So.
Speaker 2: What we got today is this for this? Is this
Speaker 2: a women's gift as well?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Yes, do you like carrying
Speaker 1: around a water bottle?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Do you like. I'm laughing because I know the answer
Speaker 1: to this. Do you like to work out with your
Speaker 1: favorite online trainer via YouTube or peloton?
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: Do you like creating athletic content where you can actually
Speaker 1: basically take a video of yourself working out or doing
Speaker 1: something fun and inspire others on YouTube, TikTok or instagram?
Speaker 2: Sounds torturous?
Speaker 1: Okay, so this maybe isn't free here?
Speaker 2: Okay? Is this it in front of me? What color
Speaker 2: is that? Peach?
Speaker 1: I think it is a dust rose. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: a dusty rose.
Speaker 2: We're doing a color episode. I am so women. Why
Speaker 2: do y'all? Stuff is just there's eight colors? Why are we? Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh, that is such a nuanced color that I'm looking
Speaker 1: at right tan. Okay, I'm gonna go with dusty rose.
Speaker 2: Well colors, you're hoodie.
Speaker 1: Oh it's like a tan, a light version of the water. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a light.
Speaker 2: Dusty Wait, sorry about the detour. Please tell me about this.
Speaker 1: Okay. So gift number five on our Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just feel like we need to
Speaker 1: constantly say we aren't paid by these products. We are
Speaker 1: putting them out there. We are testing them. We are
Speaker 1: letting you know what we think about them.
Speaker 2: Stop reminding me that we're not getting paid.
Speaker 1: This is the Bala water bottle. Okay, And here is
Speaker 1: the company's description of this gift that we've been given
Speaker 1: to look at. It's a sleek, twenty four ounce double walled,
Speaker 1: stainless steel water bottle designed in collaboration with ring Oh.
Speaker 1: It's a brand known for its magnetic magnetic phone mounting bots.
Speaker 1: The lid features here's the thing, a built in magnetic
Speaker 1: phone mount so the bottle doubles as a tripod.
Speaker 2: Stop it yes, stop.
Speaker 1: For hands free filming, Stop, face timing, workouts, walks and
Speaker 1: content capture.
Speaker 2: Stop. This is what this is.
Speaker 1: How often do my girls specifically FaceTime me when they're
Speaker 1: walking all the time? How often do my daughters walk
Speaker 1: with a water bottle in their hands? Almost every time?
Speaker 1: This is kind of genius.
Speaker 2: Wait, it can do, but it can you can be Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll have to ask. And I'm just trying it out
Speaker 2: while we're here. But I saw you had your It's
Speaker 2: it's that good of a hole.
Speaker 1: It is that yehold, So I actually tried yep, I
Speaker 1: tried it out throughout the day. Well, if you shake it,
Speaker 1: it might fall, But as long as you're just walking, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're violently shaking it when you walk,
Speaker 1: as long as you're just walking or what I have noticed.
Speaker 1: So I have done this so many times. You go
Speaker 1: to the gym, whether it's a gym in your apartment
Speaker 1: building or it's your whatever, your extra bedroom. But I
Speaker 1: have a Peloton subscription, and so I when I work out,
Speaker 1: I click on I've got whatever whoever amazing Peloton instructor
Speaker 1: I have on. I need to kind of prop it
Speaker 1: up so it's slipping, and it's sliding as I prop
Speaker 1: it up against a wall or try to put it
Speaker 1: somewhere where I can see what the instructor is telling
Speaker 1: me to do while I'm lifting weights and doing all
Speaker 1: the things I need to do. And I always have
Speaker 1: a water bottle because you're working out, So this is
Speaker 1: so ingenious. Wow, set your water bottle down on the floor,
Speaker 1: and you can put the phone on the top of
Speaker 1: the water bottle. There is a ring that folds up
Speaker 1: and you place it on there so you can actually
Speaker 1: adjust the angle that your phone's at and you can
Speaker 1: see perfectly whatever your Peloton instructor or whatever however you
Speaker 1: get your exercise routines from. You can see it in
Speaker 1: a perfect like it's actually awesome. The height it's at
Speaker 1: and where it's.
Speaker 2: At for people the best way to describe. I mean,
Speaker 2: we've seen a lot of nice water bottles people look
Speaker 2: nice with these days, and this was certainly well designed,
Speaker 2: looks good, but it's almost at a lot of people
Speaker 2: have like it's a little handle, a little hoop at
Speaker 2: the top of a lot of their water bottle.
Speaker 1: You can use it as a hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it is. But it's that little hole
Speaker 2: the top that you can then fold down and it
Speaker 2: looks like a very sleek water bottle. You lift it
Speaker 2: up and that thing is a magnet. Okay, Robes, you
Speaker 2: got me on it out clear. This might be the
Speaker 2: one I have heard you most into.
Speaker 1: Because I see especially like I don't do it as much,
Speaker 1: but I see my daughters, I see their habits, I
Speaker 1: see what they do and they're not alone. Every single girl.
Speaker 1: They've all got what are those big, huge, clunky water
Speaker 1: bottles where Annalise takes all the ice the Stanley's Thank
Speaker 1: you Annalise. When she came back, we were like, please,
Speaker 1: we don't have an ice maker. We actually have to
Speaker 1: go buy our eyes now, so we're like, don't take
Speaker 1: all the ice to fill up your huge stanley, which
Speaker 1: is ginormous, weighs down any backpack. It's actually heavier than
Speaker 1: weights in a lot of ways as she walks to
Speaker 1: and from her hot yoga classes. So those are like heavy,
Speaker 1: clunky water bottles. I have to say, here were my takeaways,
Speaker 1: just having witnessed all that I've seen with the girls
Speaker 1: and even my own habits. The weight of this is excellent.
Speaker 1: The size is perfect. It carries enough water for what
Speaker 1: you would need for a workout session, whether you're going
Speaker 1: to hot yoga or whatever class you're taking. That will
Speaker 1: sustain you for a forty five minute class period. But
Speaker 1: now if you're going there and putting on your your
Speaker 1: own personalized YouTube whatever peloton, you now have a tripod
Speaker 1: that hydrates you. That's kind of awesome. But I was
Speaker 1: thinking beyond this. If you're a hiker, if you're a runner,
Speaker 1: if you're a tourist, and you want to be able
Speaker 1: to take pictures. You want to take selfies, you want
Speaker 1: to get that group shot, you want to create content,
Speaker 1: you want to create a video, you can bring a
Speaker 1: water bottle with you that you would need anyway for hydration,
Speaker 1: and now you have a built in selfie stick or tripod.
Speaker 1: That is kind of amazing. I know you've often thought
Speaker 1: how often you wished we had a selfie stick with us.
Speaker 2: Look the more hearing you again, we're not being paid,
Speaker 2: but this is you are selling this one, even to
Speaker 2: me in a way that I looked, what is this?
Speaker 2: You were even saying, like what am I going to
Speaker 2: say about this? Or then you started trying it out
Speaker 2: and you have come around and now you have convinced
Speaker 2: me this is a nice water bottle. First of all,
Speaker 2: how many colors does this? Think of it?
Speaker 1: Quite a few, I have to tell you exactly how many.
Speaker 1: But I love the color they gave us, which is
Speaker 1: never do that again, a light busty. This is a
Speaker 1: potential under the tree situation. Yes, yes, And I'm actually thinking,
Speaker 1: because we already have one, we might need to get
Speaker 1: some more, because I do think all three of our
Speaker 1: daughters would love this water bottle for different reasons, and
Speaker 1: maybe for all of the above, I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: I did appreciate the fact that it's a good weight,
Speaker 1: it's not too bulky, it's not too heavy. The only
Speaker 1: negative that because I was trying to find one. Some
Speaker 1: folks who are really into not or just are very hygienic.
Speaker 1: They don't like germs. They like the straw because it
Speaker 1: folds down and it folds up and so it's away
Speaker 1: from hands. Now when you're taking it off, look what
Speaker 1: you're touching? Now, where do you have to drink from
Speaker 1: the water bottle? Exactly where your hands just touched?
Speaker 2: Wait? What, I don't get that?
Speaker 1: Well, I guess like I found myself. Yeah, actually like
Speaker 1: touching exactly where my lips were gonna go. And I
Speaker 1: think as long as you're aware of that, you know
Speaker 1: not to touch a certain part of it.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people turned off by drinking
Speaker 2: out of it.
Speaker 1: I think those stanleys got a lot of people into
Speaker 1: the straw. Now, cleaning the straw, how often do you
Speaker 1: do that? That is disgusting in and of itself, because
Speaker 1: so I'm not a fan of the straw. For me,
Speaker 1: this water bottle is actually perfect because I think the straw,
Speaker 1: if you are not diligent about cleaning it and about
Speaker 1: rinsing it each time you use it, I think that
Speaker 1: can end up being a false sense of hygiene. So
Speaker 1: this actually eliminates having to clean a straw, but there
Speaker 1: might be people who would prefer a straw. There is
Speaker 1: no way to have a straw in this one, so
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have to drink from the bottle old school.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, but I just wanted to point
Speaker 1: that out for folks who like the straw and the stanleys,
Speaker 1: this one doesn't have one, and I can't imagine how
Speaker 1: they would have pulled that off. But otherwise, I think
Speaker 1: this thing is pretty awesome. And so when we come back,
Speaker 1: we will tell you where you can buy it, how
Speaker 1: much is going to cost you, and we will tease
Speaker 1: next weeks. It'll be Monday's first gift of the week.
Speaker 1: And welcome back everyone. We are talking about our gift
Speaker 1: number five and our holiday gift guide. It is the
Speaker 1: Bala water bottle. And for those of you who might
Speaker 1: think that that is a familiar name, I didn't realize this,
Speaker 1: but Bala this is their latest I guess gadget. It's
Speaker 1: a water bottle that also functions as a tripod, so
Speaker 1: you can have your phone attached magnetically to your water bottle.
Speaker 1: It flips up and you can either watch content to
Speaker 1: work out with or create content while you're doing whatever
Speaker 1: athletic endeavor you're doing, or just hiking, walking whatever. It
Speaker 1: literally is a selfie stick slash water bottle. But this
Speaker 1: contraption was founded by a husband and wife team that
Speaker 1: was actually featured on Shark Tank. Yeah, so they're big
Speaker 1: breakthrough thingy was. They're called Bala Bengals. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of them? I recognize them when I looked at them,
Speaker 1: but I didn't realize this was all in the same family.
Speaker 1: But these are wrist weights that actually look like bracelets,
Speaker 1: but they're helping you with workouts. So it's they're into
Speaker 1: fashion and function and so this is just the next
Speaker 1: generation of their fashionable, functionable items that can help you
Speaker 1: work out and feel great and maybe even look great
Speaker 1: and create content. So it's pretty cool and it's exploded
Speaker 1: in popularity. They were on Shark Tank.
Speaker 2: Yes, so wait that thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Bala Bangles were on Shark Tank. They secured
Speaker 1: a nine hundred thousand dollars investment from Mark Cuban and
Speaker 1: Maria Sharapova, and that's kind of what put this team
Speaker 1: on the map, this company on the map, and this
Speaker 1: is their latest iteration, this Bala water bottle that is
Speaker 1: essentially a selfie stick slash water bottle. It's pretty ingenious.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of it, and I do think
Speaker 1: that we will be putting these under the tree for
Speaker 1: else Yes, so where can you buy this? It's featured
Speaker 1: on Goop and we've had This is the second one
Speaker 1: I think we've had featured on. This is Gwyneth Paltrow's Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is and look, I remember way back when when
Speaker 1: she first founded this thing. She curated all of these
Speaker 1: items that were very like on the high end of things,
Speaker 1: luxury brands that were wonderful, but a lot of in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways were cost prohibitive for a lot
Speaker 1: of folks. So people made fun of her website initially
Speaker 1: goop dot com, but she had Look, she's pivoted, she's
Speaker 1: figured this out. And the retail price for this water bottle,
Speaker 1: I mean it's pricey, oh, but it's not out of
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Let me give a guessa, give a guess this bottle
Speaker 2: with that re eighty bucks.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's fifty nine dollars, so less than you thought.
Speaker 1: What is a normal water bottle? I don't even know
Speaker 1: twenty nine ninety nine, maybe.
Speaker 2: We could have a water bottle of yard sale.
Speaker 3: We have some we know we actually so when we
Speaker 3: merged our apartments together and we didn't have a lot
Speaker 3: of overlap actually, but where we did.
Speaker 1: Have a lot of overlap water bottles and to go cups.
Speaker 1: I think maybe in the city we're constantly on the go.
Speaker 1: We're grabbing either going to the gym, going for a walk,
Speaker 1: going for a drive, going in an uber whatever. We
Speaker 1: have so many water.
Speaker 2: Bottles, like the go to gift people always wanted to write.
Speaker 2: When the business we were in, they always sent water
Speaker 2: bottles of some kind.
Speaker 1: And we do use them quite a bit. We do,
Speaker 1: But the stanleys are annoying because they take up so
Speaker 1: much space, and I feel like the girls get over
Speaker 1: their color quickly and might move on to a different
Speaker 1: size or a different color. We have like several of
Speaker 1: Sabine's discards, like somewhere up on a high cabinet. Analse
Speaker 1: has several up there as well, So yes, we get it.
Speaker 1: But I do like the size of this one. It
Speaker 1: is so manageable. It's it's not some obscenely large water bottle.
Speaker 1: It actually works and fits in most cabinets, and I
Speaker 1: do think this is something you would use on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. I would definitely use this hiking, I would
Speaker 1: definitely running. It might be a little but it's not
Speaker 1: that heavy and I appreciate it. So anyway, fifty nine bucks.
Speaker 2: I would never use this item. I mean, I'm that's
Speaker 2: fair and just as a water bottle, it's fine, which
Speaker 2: you got a million just like it. That one feature
Speaker 2: about this is for social media? Is what this bottle
Speaker 2: is for?
Speaker 1: Agreed? Or if you're like I said, a peloton break,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I have been at the gym, wanted
Speaker 1: to get Adrian Williams getting me going, and I have
Speaker 1: to like put it down and it slides and falls
Speaker 1: as I'm propping it against the mirror on the wall.
Speaker 1: So having it on the water bottle actually would be
Speaker 1: really awesome. You can also get it at shop Bala
Speaker 1: or Bala however you pronounce it shop ba La dot com.
Speaker 1: So either Goop dot com or shop Bala dot com.
Speaker 1: Fifty nine bucks and again I give this fully my
Speaker 1: stamp of approval. And TJ, I think you're kind of
Speaker 1: like no.
Speaker 2: I even though I wouldn't use it, I absolutely understand it.
Speaker 2: I think it's a cool product. Is just I would
Speaker 2: have a zero use for it.
Speaker 1: All right, So we are going to continue our holiday
Speaker 1: gift guide on Monday. You'll have to wait for it,
Speaker 1: look for it. But on Monday we'll give you a
Speaker 1: little tease. We're gonna help you with this, this next item,
Speaker 1: this next gift suggestion. Get ready for that kiss under
Speaker 1: the missiletoe.
Speaker 2: It's good teas.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 2: That's good tea?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I like that one. Okay, So stay tuned
Speaker 1: for Monday. We will have more. But in the meantime,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening to us. Everyone. I'm
Speaker 1: made Robot alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to
Speaker 1: you soon.